"Jingle Bells" Piano: Left Hand Chords

Video Transcript

"OK, you're on your way to playing Jingle Bells. We've covered basically notes. And now we're going to do some chords. Well, chords are fundamentals of music. Without chords, you really don't have a melody, you don't have the song. So, this is a C chord. This is actually the first chord you're going to learn for Jingle Bells. Jingle Bells can be played in a variety of ways. We're going to choose to play it in the key of C, for one reason, it's really easy. You don't actually have to touch some of these keys. A lot of them can be minor and minor chords are actually a little bit harder if you're just starting out. So, this is a C chord and this is an F chord. A C chord is comprised of three notes C, E and G. The F chord, F, A, C. There's another chord we're going to play. This is a G chord. G, A and D. Those are the left hand chords you're going to play for the song. So, you can play them a variety of ways. And that basically is your fundamentals on chords."